Something Afoot – Contemporary Dance in India
Sanjoy Roy was on the jury at the latest Prakriti Excellence in Contemporary Dance Award. He finds that contemporary dance in India is varied, dynamic and free in thought and expression.
25 March 2015
Author: Sanjoy Roy
Based in London, Sanjoy has been contributing to the Guardian since 2002, is an editor of Springback Magazine (contemporary dance in Europe), and won the OneDanceUK Dance Writing Award in 2019.
Make it Happen – The Role of the Dance Producer
What does it take to bring dancers Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Aakash Odedra to their audiences? Sanjoy Roy talked to their producers to find out: Farooq Chaudhry, Karthika Nair and Anand Bhatt.
15 September 2014
Who were the Bar Girls? – The Dynamics of Displacement
Sanjoy Roy talks to Anna Morcom, author of Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance (2013) which delves into the lives of the descendants of hereditary performers, the former tawaifs and devadasis.
23 June 2014
Hetain Patel: American Boy
Artist Hetain Patel went a bit viral over the last year, with two very different presentations.
23 June 2014
Under My Skin
Who knew surgery could be so… sexy? Not me. But Sadhana Dance’s new trio Under My Skin, based on observations of operations, turns out to be a surprisingly erotic piece.
16 December 2013
Yerma
Amina Khayyam’s Yerma is a kathak adaptation of Federico García Lorca’s 1934 play of the same name, the story of a woman whose desire for a child is so desperate and whose position so untenable – her husband is stony, and society unforgiving – that she commits murder.
16 December 2013
Shobana Jeyasingh – Choreographic ‘New Worlds’
In the second of a three-part series charting her work, Jeyasingh talks to Sanjoy Roy about some of the landmarks in her artistic journey and about motivation and imagination in the transition from dancer to choreographer.
13 September 2013
Reconfigurations
Sanjoy Roy launches the first in a three-part series by speaking to the iconic choreographer herself and tracing the twists and turns in the Company’s stylistic vision.
18 December 2012
Bamboo Blues
O ne of the highlights of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad was a month-long season of works by the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.
12 September 2012
Dev Kahan Hai?/Configurations
Shobana Jeyasingh trained in bharatanatyam, and when she formed her company back in 1988 she was clear that the abhinaya aspect of that style was not her interest. Instead, it was nritta, the formal lexicon of steps, sequences and rhythms.
15 June 2012